Rudyard Kipling Quotes

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

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• We are born to soar. We are children of God. ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • God
  • Children
  • Born

• Religion is the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

  

  William James
  • Grace
  • Order
  • Harmony

• That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Body
  • Distance
  • Vacuum

• Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Fear
  • Common
  • Art Is

• Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Truth
  • Speak
  • Life Is Short

• I can assure you the National Federation is an organization of Republican women whose power, prestige, perception, and purpose will never be underestimated by anyone.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Purpose
  • Republican
  • National Federation

• All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.

  

  William Pepper
  • Law
  • Alive
  • Court

• Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.

  

  Cary Middlecoff
  • Come
  • Concentrate
  • Hitting

• For what St. Augustine said is true, that one can sing nothing worthy of God save what one has received from Him. Wherefore though we look far and wide we will find no better songs nor songs more suitable to that purpose than the Psalms of David, which the Holy Spirit made and imparted to him. Thus, singing them we may be sure that our words come from God just as if He were to sing in us for His own exaltation. Wherefore, Chrysostom exhorts men, women, and children alike to get used to singing them, so as through this act of meditation to become as one with the choir of angels.

  

  William Romaine
  • Children
  • Song
  • Angel

• Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.

  

  Willis Harman
  • Believe
  • Creativity
  • Humans

• What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's labeled great music.

  

  Eyedea
  • Great
  • Music
  • Standards

• For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Long
  • Man
  • Political

• It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.

  

  Confucius
  • Virtue
  • Ruin
  • Concealment

• I realize anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so even when I don’t feel like it. That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • God
  • Belief
  • Choice

• No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Genuine
  • Measurement

• I've always loved English and loved English music and TV shows.

  

  Sara Sampaio
  • Music
  • English
  • Loved

• One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
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